Scrum Master for Thomas Cook

On behalf of Thomas Cook (thomascookgroup.com), Ciklum is looking for a Scrum Master to join Malaga team on a full-time basis. This is a great opportunity to be part of an exciting Team that delivers a standard-bearing product within the travel industry.

The Scrum Master will focus on educating and coaching to create a high-performing, self-organising team rather than taking a project management approach of monitoring and tracking. The Scrum Master will help the team to take accountability for its results, providing help and support along the way. As a passionate agilist, the Scrum Master will spend each day creating the environment for success in both the team, and the organisation.

Chained with product, marketing, optimization and analytics teams we all work together to deliver all requested features in order to make our website the most amazing travel platform in the world.

Responsibilities:Ensure that the theory, practices and rules of Scrum are understood and enacted.Serve and coach the Product Owner:Advise on techniques for Product Backlog management,Teach some techniques for empirical product planning,Help to understand the need for clearly expressed Product Backlog Items,Advise on how to order the Product Backlog to maximise the value of the Product,Facilitate Scrum events as requested;Serve and coach the Development Team:Foster an environment for the Team to become high-performing and self-organising,Protect Team from external interruptions and unhelpful interactions,Facilitate the removal of impediments to the Team’s progress,Help the Team to create a high-value, high-quality product that is Done’ each Sprint,Support the Team to continuously improve through raising awareness, responsibility and helping to generate options,Facilitate Scrum events as requested;Serve and coach the Organisation:Lead and coach the organisation in its Scrum adoption,Help employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development,Engage in organisational/systemic change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team,Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organisation.

Requirements:Experience of being dedicated, full-time Scrum Master is a must (without mixing other roles);Successfully helping Teams to become more effective at building great products with Scrum;Passionate about, and has deep and broad knowledge of Scrum and Agile;Great communication, listening, questioning skills;Enjoys helping and protecting, people and teams;Understands team dynamics and can help teams to become more effective;Great facilitation skills and can design and run engaging and effective Sprint Retrospectives;Clear understanding of Scrum Master, Project Manager, Product Owner roles and its boundaries;Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) or equivalent;Fluent English.

Personal skills:Challenge the status quo, open-minded and ready for rapid changesDrive for continual improvementStrong logic and analytical skillsStrong communication skillsAbility to live and work in multitasking mode

Desirable:Great training, mentoring and coaching skills;Experience as a software engineer, developer or QA;Ability to influence and motivate without hierarchical authority;Comfortable engaging with senior leaders and stakeholders to create change;Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP) or equivalent.

What´s in it for you?Ability to work on challenging, large project with complex high load e-commerce platformState of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditionsUnique working environment where you communicate and work directly with clientCompetitive salaryCareer and professional growthPossibility to work in a big and successful companyLong-term employment with 23 working-days paid vacation and other social benefits